Book description
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work.Jared Diamond on biological electricity Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition Richard Thaler on the power of commitment V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism plus contributions by Martin J. Rees Kevin Kelly Clay Shirky Daniel C. Dennett Sherry Turkle Philip Zimbardo Lee Smolin Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Seth Lloyd Stewart Brand George Dyson Matt Ridley
Digital Goddess
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StorySculptor
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Roadblock
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Forger
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Centurion Sherman
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Necromancer
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience